AUTHOR'S PREFACE 



This book is one of a series on agriculture 

 which the author hopes to be spared to complete. It 

 is designed more especially to meet the needs of 

 dairymen when providing green food for their stock, 

 summer and winter, but it is also intended to be 

 similarly helpful to all farmers who keep domestic 

 animals on the arable farm, and it is hoped that the 

 student also at the agricultural college may be able to 

 glean from its pages what will be helpful to him 

 when prosecuting his investigations. Excellent 

 information on the subject of soiling and also on that 

 of the silo has been furnished by various authors, 

 but in a form more or less fragmentary, irregular 

 and incomplete. It has been the aim of the author 

 in the present work to cover these subjects with at 

 least a measurable degree of completeness and 

 system. 



In writing a series of books on agriculture, it Is 

 not easy to avoid some repetition. In fact, it is 

 practically impossible to do so. For example, when 

 one book treats of forage crops other than grasses 

 and is followed by a second on soiling crops and the 

 silo, as in the present instance, it will be found that 

 many of the crops grown for these respective uses 

 are the same. They are grown on the same kinds of 

 soils, and the methods of growing them are similar 



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